Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica
Abbreviated Voyages in Silver Latin Epic
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 December 1998
- ISBN 9780198150985
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 224x144x22 mm
- Weight 484 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica narrates the mythological quest for the Golden Fleece and the early stages of the ill-fated love affair of Jason and Medea, a tale already familiar from Greek epic tragedy, but given a Roman twist by the first-century AD epic poet. This book provides readers who have not yet encountered the Argonautica with a general introduction to the work and, through comparisons with Apollonius' Argonautica and Virgil's Aeneid, offers specialists a re-evaluation of this important Silver Latin epic.
MoreLong description:
Valerius Flaccus' unfinished and unjustly neglected epic, recounting the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece and the early stages of the love affair of Jason and Medea, has been relegated to the outer fringes of classical scholarship for many years. No full-length study devoted to the Argonautica has been published in English for over 100 years. This book seeks to redress the balance. The author aims to provide readers who have not yet encountered Valerius Flaccus' work with a general introduction to this multi-faceted epic poem. At the same time Hershkowitz offers those already familiar with the Argonautica an in-depth re-evaluation of the work, contextualizing it within both an historical and a literary framework, and focusing in particular on its intertextual relationship with Apollonius' Argonautica and Virgil's Aeneid. Using Valerius' epic as a test-case, Dr. Hershkowitz hopes to challenge many of the critical assumptions about the nature of Silver Latin literature.
... should arouse fresh interest in the poem.
Table of Contents:
Incompleteness: me talia uelle?
Belatedness: Silver Linings
Recuperations: Better, Stronger, Faster
Digressions: The Road not Taken
Dissimulation: Unlearned in the World's False Subtleties
